No fan of Kenney, but I really wonder what his approach here would have been in comparison to Smith. Would it have been similar or the same as Smith currently, or more similar to Doug Ford’s approach?

I’ll bite.

Personally as someone who is fairly left-wing, I feel like that religious tolerance is acceptable since around the world we see what religious intolerance tends to lead to. With Islam, it just so happens that a lot of countries that are in crisis currently are countries where there are significant Muslim populations, and that fact can be owed heavily to U.S. interventionism among other things of course.

I grew up in an area where we had a heavy Muslim population. I’m non-religious myself, my direct family is non-religious as well, but I did also have a spot in my teen years where I was very much Christian. While I do have my thoughts on religion and it’s place (or rather, lack of place in my personal opinion) in the world, I think forcing people to comply with being secular is just as bad as forcing secular people to be religious.

The path forward I believe is engagement between religions, as well as between the religious and non-religious. Even though I consider myself agnostic, I did go to an Iftar dinner at a synagogue the other day as a special interfaith dialogue event, and it went great. Allowing ourselves to learn about others also allows others to learn about us, to which people can be swayed towards secularism if we respectively bring up why we believe what we do and what we perceive as flaws in religions that we learn about.

Do we have any Conservative folks here? Not Conservative myself, but if there’s like a petition or something I’m more than willing to cross lines in supporting this call since this is just vile.

And the 70% who don’t are doing… what exactly?

“This isn’t the campaign I expected to run. But when Ottawa insiders shut me out of the Conservative nomination, I knew I couldn’t stay silent. I’m running to give this community back its voice,”

Bro calls out insiders after wanting to become an insider, more at 11.

I’d have a lot more respect if he ran as an independent from the get-go regardless of his politics, but nope. Surprise! The party that wants to backstab it’s constituents wants to backstab people who fall slightly out of line.

Good. What this should do is also invigorate our economy and have us explore alternatives that we can produce here. Even before this nonsense I was worried about our heavy dependence on the U.S., but here we are now with it punching us in the gut.

Federal government should really give funding boosts to greenhouse farms right about now so that we can grow more stuff here out of season and not import from say, California all the time.

owww noooo da amewicans gonna get twiggered becuz day saw da mean hatty-watty.

God, if this was about keeping a good face with the MLB and American viewers, then the team leadership has no fucking spine.

Man, living in Alberta is such a pain.

Never been on a vacation abroad, but this has really been making me think about how I should probably make a trip to St. John’s for a vacation.

Also like, when was the last time he had anybody truly left-wing on? Been a few years since he’s had Kyle Kulinski on, but Alex Jones? Book that guy a slot for next Friday.

Why do we continue to pretend that India is an ally? Nothing against the people that come here from there of course, but we sure as hell have a weirdly comfortable relationship with a country that has no issues in assassinating people on our soil.

Joe Rogan Experience in a nutshell:

Guest: batshit insane shit

Rogan: uh huh, oh wow, that’s crazy, never thought of it like that

Rogan: also like, here’s my thoughts bro (insert popular opinion here)

Guest: continues batshit insane shit that contradicts that expressed opinion

Rogan: I totally agree.

“People are free to make their own comments, I speak for myself”

Yeah, kinda speaking for yourself a lot in not denouncing those comments.

Populist.

35%.

Choose one lol, what a joke.

They’re still an American citizen. Nowhere in the article is it mentioned if they voted in the U.S. election.

If they didn’t vote, then I’m sorry to say, they’re a coward. Moving up here and then refusing to do your civic duty as an American citizen to keep this guy out of office to the best of your ability as someone abroad would make me furious if they’re sticking around here, so I’m really hoping that that isn’t the case.

God if I had the funds to head up to the legislature I would be protesting this shit endlessly.

My MLA is with the NDP, so clearly against this, but I should probably find the nearest UCP office and put up signage or whatnot.

What a fucking idiot. Gets fuck all after the visits to Mar-a-Lago and talks with Trump about Alberta oil, and then decides that she wants to cuck herself to deals within Canada by asking those same people who gave her diddly squat to interfere with the election as if they didn’t just backstab her for the effort she put in to appease them.

Cause simply wearing a hijab is so much worse than…

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…lighting someone on fire?

Nope.

Nope nope nope nope nope.

I’m sorry, the entire idea of “vote splitting” just encourages people to move their vote from the candidate that aligns most with their values to the candidate who’s already got the most backing. You’re essentially robbing support from the smaller parties and consolidating it with the big ones, further exacerbating the problem by creating an environment where it’s one person or the other. This is how the Americans ended up with a two-party system and how they stubbornly will do anything as a means to do nothing about their problem.

Vote with who aligns with your opinions most, regardless of if it’s “strategic” or not. For me, it happens to be the Liberals I’m voting for because I’m tired of how weak the NDP and Green leadership is, but beforehand I voted for the NDP candidate here in heavily Conservative Alberta even when the Liberal would have been “more viable” with my vote.

It is up to the federal parties to win you over with their vote, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND and “strategic voting” only creates a system where your candidates will start feeling entitled to your vote regardless of if they listen to what you want as a voter simply because you “have no other option this side of the aisle” and that “the other guy is worse”.

Amarjeet is such a fucking incredible guy. Look up dude’s story, it is insane. Man has gone through so much and still fights the good fight after all these years.

My mother would take the bus to work and back and remembers him being a bus driver with ETS. Great guy with great character.